Comments on: What Fruit Peel Do You Eat?

By: Renaissance Austin

Renaissance Austin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:17:05 +0000

Hey! I was wondering the same thing about banana peel. I didn’t want to just throw it away. But I eat orange peel all the time. The best part is I grow my own oranges so I trust them and they taste better than in the stores as well. I clean them really well after I pull a few off the tree. They make my skin look amazing! No harm in eating peeling from a citrus fruit. But of course watch the amount. too much of anything can be bad.

By: Miroslav Cvetinov

Miroslav Cvetinov — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:48:32 +0000

Great. So I am not alone.

I regularly eat banana and orange peels. They are so healthy it is hard to believe. In fact, I think that orange peel is single most healthy food that exists.

By: carolyn

carolyn — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:42:02 +0000

I eat the peel of apples, kiwi, and oranges. I don’t eat bananas–they give me gas, so I can imagine what adding the peeling might do to me. And I only eat the peeling, or the fruit, for that matter, if it’s organic, except for avocados; I live in San Diego and a fruitarian (fruits, nuts and seeds, raw, and that’s it–except for cumin, sea salt and coconut oil, in very small quantities, to go with my tahini), so if I have to eat conventionally grown avocados, and sometimes it’s necessary, I do it.

By: Kristen King

Kristen King — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:40:30 +0000

I eat the peel for most fruits I consume, but not bananas! I never would have thought of that. Not oranges, either. I guess my general rule of thumb is that if I have to peel the fruit to get to the good part, then I discard the peel.

I do worry about pesticides on the skin of fruit and veggies, so I try to buy certified organic whenever possible and I scrub everything within in inch of its life. :]

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Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:58:47 +0000

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By: josh

josh — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:56:38 +0000

eat organic there are no pesticides. besides pesticides are throughout the whole fruit not just the peel. so go organic.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:30:35 +0000

I don’t eat a lot of fruit peels, but it is partly because of fear of pesticides. Do you know if in the US pesticides in peels are monitored? If they don’t, I wish they would.

By: SP from the South

SP from the South — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:46:34 +0000

I’m a little queazy about it, but I do eat the peel from Kiwis. As a kid we used to eat apple peel all the time. Now, I tend to peel it off and toss it. I never ever considered banana peel?? Lemon slices in cold drinks is another one. You have to wonder if the pesticides are floating around in your sodas?? There goes another one!